by corruption is legitimacy. Using Euro Barometer opinion polls I measure legitimacy as the trust in politicians and …Political corruption has a negative effect on the process of democratization. One of the democratic components affected … political and judicial institutions. I test the effect of corruption, employing the CPI Transparency International index …

political legitimacy. The first assumption, common in public debate throughout the United States, is that federal oversight of … political legitimacy can be established through appeals to expert consensus about fundamental conceptions of justice or human …